Sunday, April 21, 2013

Punched Circles CASE

Happy Sunday!

Just a quick one today, as my Stamp-a-Stack starts in a few hours!

Yes ... I have another CASE for you. I gotta say ... my creative juices were lacking over the last few weeks (if you read my previous posts you can understand why!) so ... to Pinterest and Stampin' Connection I went! I spend at least half an hour every morning, over my coffee, snooping through these two great resources and save cards I like for times like these when I need a great card but lack the time or energy to create it from scratch. This week it was Catherine Pooler to the rescue! She has a great site at catherinepooler.com with lots of videos and inspiration. Here is the card I CASEd from her site:

I'm not sure what drew me to this card originally - the paper or the clean and simple design. Regardless, I loved it and tried to recreate it. I found out the paper is from the Festival of Prints Paper Pack that was in the holiday mini and is thus now retired so I simply grabbed my CURRENT paper pack - Print Poetry DSP - page 16 of the mini - $8.50 - and was spoiled for DSP choice! This was my first attempt:

I really liked how it turned out ... and that if you flipped the colors over you had a great masculine card ... but I really wasn't in a "very vanilla" kind of mood. I wanted Whisper White ... but the DSP uses vanilla ... and it didn't really "go" ... so I grabbed my current favorite "bright and perky" DSP - Polka Dot Parade and made this:

Much better! ... well, for today's mood, anyway! I like that this card can be used for any age and either gender (well, maybe skip the rhinestones if you are giving it to a man!) I sued the 1 3/4", 1 3/8", 1" and 3/4" circle punches with the Polka Dot Parade DSP. The sentiment is from Curly Cute (pgae 138 - $17.95 clear; $24.95 wood) in Early Espresso. I rounded the corners with the corner rounder punch (page 183 - $8.95) and popped it up on dimensionals. I also rounded the corners on the top card stock layer and added dimensionals to that. A large rhinestone and some regular rhinestones finished it off. (On the Very Vanilla card above I used the large pearl and regular pearls - everything else was the same).

So that's my share for today. Pop in tomorrow when I'll share a card that wasn't 100% CASEd ... but pretty close *lol*. Hey! A great card is a great card! You don't always have to reinvent the wheel! Until tomorrow ... have a stampy day!

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I am a SAHM to two GREAT kids, a wife to a GREAT man and a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I LOVE all things crafty and I absolutely LOVE what I do! Please know that the content in this blog is my sole respoinsibility as an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and the use of and content of this blog is not endorsed by Stampin' Up!
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